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SF IRL - Nov 3rd, 2025
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
November 03, 2025
Hi SF IRL! There's a ton of vibrance and energy coming back into the city and at SF IRL, we are excited to be a part of it. Excited to come with you all with some great events for Issue #170.
I'm Jonathan, the creator of SF IRL. I've been a Bay Area resident all my life and moved into San Francisco about 4 years ago. My full-time job is at Brex where I meet founders and VCs while trying to create a community in the city. My vision for SF IRL is simple. Showcase the best tech + startup events in SF and to connect all of our builders and investors together. We are a growing community having over 9000+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 10,000 readers. As always, SF IRL is one of my many side projects. If you like to be involved in helping, please shoot me an email!
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Nov 6th, 2025 - Founding Sales Masterclass with Peter Kazanjy
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Join Founding Sales author Peter Kazanjy, Greylock, and Lightfield for an evening on how founders build their first repeatable go-to-market motion. Learn how to refine your ICP, run founder-led sales, and turn early traction into scalable growth. Come ready to learn, take notes, and level up your early GTM motion.
Triumph is building the next generation of skill-based, real-money gaming. Backed by General Catalyst, Goodwater Capital, and Drive by DraftKings, Triumph creates competitive mobile games where players can put their skills to the test, compete head-to-head, and win cash.
Among the top 30 apps in the App Store and ranked number 1 in the Casino category for months, Triumph has hundreds of thousands of monthly active users and hundreds of millions of games played. The company is growing rapidly and is looking to expand its team to help shape the future of real-money gaming.
Based in San Francisco, Triumph operates at the intersection of gaming and finance, solving complex problems in real-time multiplayer systems, payments, and player experience. The team moves fast, ships often, and takes pride in building products that are both technically challenging and genuinely fun to play.
Why Work at Triumph?
Triumph merges the speed of a start-up with the scale of a top-tier mobile platform. It champions ownership, experimentation, and the chance to make an immediate impact on millions of players worldwide.
If you are motivated by building products that merge engineering depth with entertainment, then Triumph provides the opportunity to work within a tight-knit, high-output team backed by world-class investors.
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Events Coming Up
Nov 4th, 2025 - Stripe Startups Build Day SF
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9:30am-4pm
What: Join us for a day of hands-on building with the Stripe team. Whether you’re looking for a chance to connect with other founders, 1:1 guidance from the Stripe team, or a change of scenery, we’ll have you covered. Build Days are a choose-your-own-adventure so you can optimize your time to get the most for you and your startup.
Nov 4th, 2025 - SF Pre-Seed Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
What: Work-Bench is partnering with a dream team of west coast Pre-Seed investors, including Modern Technical Fund, Race Capital, Oddbird VC, Seven Hill Ventures and more to meet and connect with founders and operators building the next generation of B2B SaaS and Infra companies.
Nov 4th, 2025 - AI Agents Meetup: LangChain + Rippling
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Join Harrison Chase (Co-founder and CEO, LangChain) and Ankur Bhatt (Head of AI, Rippling) for a candid conversation on how enterprise teams are deploying LangGraph-based agents in live environments where reliability, observability, and performance actually matter.
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Support and engineering teams often live on opposite sides of the same customer problem, with critical context getting lost in the handoff.
Join product and customer leaders from Fin, Jam, and Vercel for a fireside chat exploring how AI, collaboration tools, and new team structures are reshaping the way customer issues become engineering insight.
Nov 5th, 2025 - MCP Connect with Alpic, Stytch, Postman & Ref.
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: MCP Connect is for developers, practitioners, researchers, and enthusiasts working with the Model Context Protocol and AI agents. We share best practices, new tools, and real-world use cases for building MCP servers and integrating them into agentic workflows. Whether you are building MCP servers for your internal or external use cases or just exploring how agents connect to applications, MCP Connect is a place to exchange ideas, learn, and help shape the future of AI workflows.
Nov 5th, 2025 - SF Founder Day 2025
Location: San Francisco
Time: 8:30am-5pm
What: Founder Day is a high-substance, founder-first experience designed to help early-stage founders sharpen their fundraising strategy, gain practical insights from top investors, and build meaningful connections across the founder and VC community.
Nov 6th, 2025 - Founding Sales Masterclass with Peter Kazanjy
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Founding sales is one of the hardest and most important parts of building a company - the messy, hands-on phase where learning happens one conversation at a time. The challenge is turning that chaos into a repeatable motion that scales.
Join Peter Kazanjy (author of Founding Sales), Greylock, and Lightfield for an evening masterclass designed to help founders sharpen how they build and communicate their early go-to-market motion.
In this 2-hour, hands-on session, you’ll learn:
How to define and validate your ICP
How to structure your first repeatable sales motion
How to translate traction into a compelling GTM narrative for Demo Day and investors
How to leverage modern AI-native tools to learn faster from every customer interaction
Whether you’re preparing for YC Demo Day or simply building your first scalable GTM engine, you’ll leave with practical frameworks, examples, and takeaways you can apply immediately.
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7:30-8:30pm
What: Join The San Francisco Standard for a candid conversation about how young men are shaping and experiencing Silicon Valley in the age of AI. Featuring two longtime observers and two self-proclaimed tech bros, we’ll unpack the routines, lifestyles, and worldviews defining San Francisco’s tech bros. From their thoughts on AGI to how they approach dating, this event dives into the minds driving the city’s AI tech boom.
Nov 6th, 2025 - 🧠 The AI Collective | Beer Garden Bash 🍻
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-7pm
What: We’re back — and this time, we’re bringing the fall vibes! The AI Collective’s Beer Garden Bash is here to kick off what we hope becomes a beloved community tradition. Think crisp autumn air, great people, and zero agendas — just genuine connection and good energy.
Nov 6th, 2025 - Building AI agents for e-commerce & DTC brands
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Join us on the evening of November 6 in the Lower Haight for Japanese food and a hands-on session exploring how AI agents are transforming support for consumer and e-commerce brands.
Nov 6th, 2025 - at the edge (spc demo night)
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: demo nights are back.
come see some weird and fresh work from:
Nov 7th, 2025 - SF PITCH NIGHT 💸 (w/ The AI Collective & Roam)
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: For two years, we've been famous for our groundbreaking demo nights. Now, we're revolutionizing the experience into something brand new and never before seen. This November, get ready for SF PITCH NIGHT!
Nov 8th, 2025 - Women Who Lift: Lift & Brunch
Location: San Francisco
Time: 10:30am-12pm
What: We're so excited to invite you back to LuxFit for an all-levels-welcome outdoor weightlifting workout!
If you're looking for a way to meet like-minded people while learning a new skill or getting your workout in, this is the event for you.
The 1-hour workout will be led by an amazing coach at LuxFit who has worked with athletes in the Bay for years! After the work out, we will host brunch with assorted bagel sandwiches & coffee, also in hayes valley 🥯
Nov 10th, 2025 - Training the Workforce of the Future — One Humanoid Robot at a Time
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9:30am-1:30pm
What: Join Robots For Humanity — a startup that trains and deploys humanoid robots like the Unitree G1 in real industrial environments through teleoperation, digital twins, and AI — and Binbash, an AWS Advanced Partner, for an interactive deep dive into the latest real-world applications of AI, simulation, and remote robot control using AWS and NVIDIA infrastructure.
Nov 12th, 2025 - Overnight Success: Vanta
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
What: Christina Cacioppo taught herself to code after leaving venture capital at USV because she realized the future belonged to people who build. She'd wake up at 5:45 AM to manually send "automated" compliance emails to Vanta's first customers, testing what worked before writing any automation code.
The security compliance space in 2018? Nobody cared. Startups didn't need SOC 2. VCs told her the market was too small. She spent six months interviewing companies, building spreadsheet prototypes for Segment and Front, doing compliance work manually while pretending it was software.
She pivoted from security checklists that didn't work to compliance certification that did. Built a meeting recorder and voice assistant that both failed before landing on Vanta. Her first 600 customers signed up without a real website. Just a llama and an opt-in form.
Now Vanta is worth $4.15 billion and serves 12,000+ companies.
Nov 12th, 2025 - First Block Live — Reinventing Law with AI: Inside Harvey’s $5B Valuation, hosted by Notion
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: Harvey AI is rewriting the rules of law - and just hit a $5 billion valuation along the way. Join Notion’s co-founder Akshay Kothari in conversation with Harvey's co-founder & president Gabe Pereyra to unpack how they scaled Harvey to $100M+ ARR while redefining what AI can do in one of the world’s most regulated industries.
Nov 13th, 2025 - Gen AI at Work: Sunnyvale
Location: Sunnyvale
Time: 2:30-6:30pm
What: Generative AI offers immense potential, but selecting tools, navigating security, and ensuring adoption can be complex.
Join Google AI experts in Sunnyvale where they'll share our vision for the AI-powered workplace and show you how our AI-first approach can transform businesses and foster innovation through powerful use cases and live demos. Learn how to begin your journey with AI, no matter your current productivity tools.
Nov 13th, 2025 - No Code AI Agent Build Night for Sales @ Lindy HQ
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9pm
What: Lindy is the easiest way to build AI Agents.
Come join for a 2hr session with the Lindy team to build agents, meet others in sales, and see the latest in what's possible.
The founding team at Lindy will share how they use agents in their sales workflows.
Whether you have multiple Lindy's in production or are building new one's for the first, you're welcome to join.
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